Buckle.



D". G. HUBD.

BUCKLE.

(Application filed. June 4, 1898.)

No. 633,137. Patented Sept. 19, I899.

(No Model.)

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DELMAR G, HURD, OF LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNEASSIGNMENTS, T 0 THE IDEAL BUCKLE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF PORTLAND,MAINE.

BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 633,137, dated.September 19, 1899.

Application filed June 4, 1898.

T0 on whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, DELMAR G. HURD, a citizen of the United States,residing at Lowell, in the county of Middlesex and Commonwealth ofMassachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement inBuckles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention-relates to buckles; and it consistsin the devices andcombinations hereinafter described and claimed, the object of said invention being to furnish a cheap, easilyoperated, and reliable bucklewhich will not mar or cut the strap to which it is applied and will notrequire such strap to be perforated for the reception ofa pointedtongue.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan of my improved buckleattached to a strap or belt and connecting the ends of the same, themiddle portion of the strap or belt being omitted; Fig. 2, a plan ofsaid buckle detached; Figs. 3 and 4, vertical central longitudinalsections of the outer frame on the line 3 3 in Fig. 2, the binder orinner frame being in side elevation, the buckle being closed in Fig. 3and open in Fig.4; Figs. 5 and 6, vertical transverse sections on thelines 5 5 and 6 6, respectively, in Fig. 2; Fig. 7, a side elevation ofthe buckle and strap shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 8, a central vertical sectionon the line 8 8 in Fig. 1; Fig. 9, a section similar to Fig. 5, butshowing a modification of the means of pivoting the parts of the buckleto each other.

My improved buckle consists of an outer frame A, preferablyrectangular,within which is arranged a binder B, which may be aplate orblock, but for lightness and economy of material is preferably a frameor skeleton, the side bars I) b of which are pivoted at c c to the sidebars a a of the outer frame in such a manner that the binder B may rockin said outer frame.

The rocking motion of the binder B is limited, Figs. 1 to 4 and 8, inone direction by a transverse ledge a on the inner face of the front bara 'of the frame A, said front bar a being arranged below the front endor bar I) of said binder, and in the other direction by the keeper orrear bar 11 of said binder strik- Serial No. 682,517- (No model.)

ing upon inclined shoulders of a with which 5 the inner faces of theside bars a a are provided. The binder Bis thus allowed to rock onlyenough to allow the unattached end of the strap D to be passed freelythrough the buckle between said binder and the front bar of the outerframe A.

The side bars I) b of the binder are represented in Figs. 1 to 4 and 8as being offset outwardly near their rear ends at b b and turned upwardinto slots a M, the rear inclined sides of which form the shoulders at aabove mentioned. The nose or front edge of the front bar 11 of the binder is slightly beveled to prevent cutting the strap D.'

In use one end of the strap D is attached by any usual means, as bysewing or by a rivet E, Figs. 7 and 8, to the rear bar a of the frame,and the other end of the strap is passed up between the front bar of thebinder and the front bar of the frame A and under the rear bar b whichserves as a keeper for the unattached end of the strap, the spacebetween the offset portions 19 b of the side bars I) I) being wideenough to receive any strap which can pass between the side bars of theframe A at the ledge a The bending of the strap over the ledge a in onedirection and over the nose of the binder in the other direction causesthose parts to hold the strap, and the upward pressure of the strapagainst the under side of the bar 12 holds the front end of the bindermore firmly down upon the strap and forces said strap against the frontbar of the frame A and prevents the strap from slipping in the buckle.

In Fig. 9 the binder is represented with ears 0 0 made integraltherewith and laid in slots a a in the frame A, and said frame is shownwith projections a 00 which may be made to reach above the tops of saidslots and may be bent down into said slots over said ears 0 c to retainsaid ears therein, the projection a being represented as already bentinto place, while the projection or is unbent.

The parts of the buckle may be cast, as of malleable iron, and usedwithout machining.

I claim as my invention- 1. The combination of a frame having a frontbar, provided with a transverse ledge on its inner face and having arear transverse bar for the attachment of a strap, and a binder pivotedin said frame between the ends thereof and having its nose or front edgearranged above said ledge and having its rear end in front of said reartransverse bar outwardiy offset to receive the free end of said strap,above said frame.

2. The combination of a frame having a front bar, provided with atransverse ledge on its inner face, and a binder, consisting of askeleton pivoted in said frame between the ends thereof and having itsnose or front edge

